From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-05-27T11:58:44+09:00
Subject: Re: extending rdoc for custom accessors

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> 
> My code has some things that work a bit like "attr_reader" et al, but of 
> course rdoc doesn't know about them. Is there an easy way to extend rdoc 
> to handle such things?

That depends on what you'd expect in terms of the resulting output. 
Making the parser pluggable is pretty easy: you could write an extension 
that handled stuff that matched a regexp you provided, and I'd call you 
when that regexp hit in the right context.

However, unless you were satisfied with one of the existing output 
fields, you'd also need to extend the output formatters to add new 
sections to the generated HTML/XML/etc. This might be messier.

So, so summarize: if you want your accessors to appear in the standard 
accessors section, it's easy. otherwise it's harder.

Cheers


Dave